Afton, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,950 ft 595 m1,650 ft 505 m1,510 ft 460 m1,210 ft 370 m910 ft 280 m770 ft 235 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Afton sits at about 1,140 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,140 ft 345 m
most residents: 940–1,520 ft
Lowest
760 ft 235 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,950 ft 595 m
at the foot of the Ragged Mountains
Average
1,120 ft 345 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Afton spans about 1,190 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Ragged Mountains | 1,950 ft595 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 760 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Afton | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Average of all land | 1,120 ft345 m |
| Nearest peak Devils Knob, 9.1 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 3,850 ft1,175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nelson and Albemarle counties, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 313 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Density
- 139 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0324° N, 78.8392° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Rockfish River → James River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 22920
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wintergreen3,130 ft
- Sherando1,500 ft
- Stuarts Draft1,460 ft
- Lyndhurst1,390 ft
- Fishersville1,370 ft
- Dooms1,350 ft
- Waynesboro1,340 ft
- Crimora1,290 ft
- Afton1,140 ft
- Nellysford750 ft
- Crozet680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia190th highest of 700
- Towns in Nelson County2nd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Pond Mountain4,030 ft
- Chimney Rock, Nelson County3,950 ft
- Devils Knob3,850 ft
- Big Flat Mountain3,390 ft
- Heard Mountain2,399 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Afton is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.